Episodes

Jasmine Butler (they/them) was born and raised in Memphis by way of deep Mississippi roots. They’re a Black queer writer, educator, and afrofuturist-abolitionist deeply committed to collective liberation through mutual care and education. Jasmine arrived to the climate movement after years of witnessing government neglect of communities impacted by disasters and toxicity, and they’re excited about organizing and learning alongside other young people for a liberated future. They hope to grow as a...

Libre X. Sankara is a Afro-Boricua poet(a), cultural worker, organizer, drummer, and popular educator. They currently live on Miccosukee, Seminole & Tequesta land (Miami, FL) and organize with Troika Kollective. They also started a program called Democracy For Youth (DeFY). Their work has led them to understand that poetry and organizing is theory in action, which leads to the systematic change we need. They work with youth to normalize radical imagination, help build alternatives outside capita...

Justin J. Pearson is the fourth son of five boys born to teenage parents in Memphis, Tennessee. Justin J. graduated from Mitchell High School as Valedictorian and Bowdoin College in 2017 majoring in both Government & Legal Studies and Education Studies. Justin J. is also a leader of Memphis Community Against Pollution and co-founder of Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) which is a Black-led environmental justice organization that successfully defeated a multi-billion dollar company's ...

Maya B. Henderson is a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, and is also of Choctaw, German, and Welsh descent. Maya is a Ph.D. student in the Dept. of Geography at the University of Georgia. Her work is at the intersection of climate justice, settler-colonial cities, and Indigenous resistance and futures. She aims to understand how climate change and climate action are enrolled in reinforcing and/or contesting settler-colonial cities. She maintains that her work must also uplift Indig...

This is Climate Justice, Y'all!, a podcast dedicated to lifting up and centering the climate and environmental justice movement in the South. Climate Justice, Y'all Dr. Tammy Greer – Tammy Greer, Ph. D, (United Houma Nation) is a faculty member in the School of Psychology and Firector of the Southern Miss Center for American Indian research and Studies. She is a faculty advisor to the Golden Eagle Intertribal Society – a Native focused student group who works with the Center to host a yearly pow...

This week we’re talking to Chauncey O’Dell and Adam Hughes about Appalachia, climate justice, and reimagining the present and future of the region. Chauncey and Adam are organizers with the Alliance for Appalachia, a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction.

This week we’re talking to Chauncey O’Dell and Adam Hughes about Appalachia, climate justice, and reimagining the present and future of the region. Chauncey and Adam are organizers with the Alliance for Appalachia, a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction.

N. Teresa is Regional Organizer for the Gulf South for a Green New Deal for Taproot Earth. They are a non-binary, afro-descendant person and single parent. They come to this work with experience as a popular educator and organizer in Puerto Rico, also as a birth and abortion doula, and activist for the freedom of their country. As part of their beliefs for the decolonization of her country, they studied agroecology, childbirth and became a community doula. Food sovereignty, climate justice, gend...

As Healthy Gulf’s Louisiana organizer, Michael works with frontline communities in the state’s traditional industrial corridor, which stretches along the Mississippi from East Baton Rouge down to Plaquemines Parish where the river opens up at the Gulf of Mexico. Her work is focused on fighting petrochemical buildout, advancing the Gulf South for a Green New Deal platform & vision for climate justice, and uplifting community struggles for clean air, water and land. She comes to Healthy Gulf with ...

Rev. Dallas Conyers works as a Body Restoration Specialist: teaching yoga, foods for healing, and spiritual reestablishment to help people become ABLE to live out their creation purpose. She is a certified Sustainable Agriculturalist, Beekeeper, and Greenhouse Husbandman. She uses her micro-farm to practice and educate others on: eco-system restoration, soil regeneration, no-till square foot farming, and pollinator cultivation; for our world and for our survival. Dallas delightedly sits under th...

Chris Woolery joined the Mountain Association’s Energy Team in 2011. As the Residential Energy Coordinator, Chris manages the residential energy program, How$martKY™, which partners with rural electric cooperatives to design, finance, and install home energy efficiency upgrades paid for directly out of energy savings. Previously, Chris was an ENERGY STAR® builder and energy services contractor for nearly two decades. In his career, Chris has helped deliver residential energy efficiency upgrades ...

Brent is a 1994 graduate of Mississippi State University in Agriculture and Biological Engineering. After graduation, Brent worked as an Environmental Consultant for two central Mississippi environmental engineering firms. In 1999, Brent went to the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation to become the organization’s Environmental Programs Coordinator and served in that capacity for over seven years. From October 2006 to December 2019, Brent has served as the State Activities Coordinator for the 25x’...

Marsha Jackson is the co-chair of Southern Sector Rising, a nonprofit environmental justice organization based in Dallas, TX. Founded to get rid of Shingle Mountain, an illegal dump in a southern Dallas community, SSR’s mission is to offer marginalized residents health equity by ending decades of racist zoning, forcing industrial polluters out of Black and Brown neighborhoods, and by more evenly distributing the pollution burdens of our city. Thanks to Marsha and SSR’s years of unrelenting advoc...

Alabama native Catherine Coleman-Flowers is an environmental and climate justice activist bringing attention to the largely invisible problem of inadequate waste and water sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the United States. As the founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice (formerly the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise), Flowers builds partnerships — from close neighbors, to local elected officials and regional nonprofits, to federal lawmak...

We’re back for Season 2! In the first episode of the new season, Abigail and Maresha chat with the leaders of the organizations that developed the Climate Justice, Y’all podcast. The conversation is a both a look back at the first season and a look ahead to this next one. Welcome back, y’all! Rev. Michael Malcom is Executive Director of the People’s Justice Council and Alabama Interfaith Power and Light. He is a licensed and ordained United Church of Christ Minister. Alexander Easdale is the Exe...